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After 20 minutes, I sensed I was intruding on the movie’s love affair with itself!
voyeuristically enthuses the New York Post
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The alternately cranky and cartoonish comedy can’t seem to decide whether it’s a flippant sketchy teen angst weepie, or your basic flamboyant comic book screen transplant!
fires NewsBlaze
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The movie tongues its cheek, raises its eyebrows, and nudges our elbow in every area except where it really counts!
blazes Mark Dujsik
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A clip reel of console carnage!
salivates Brian Orndorf
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About as complete and coherent a film as was the blur of light and sound that comprised Speed Racer!
says Critic’s Notebook
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Twilight for boys!
proclaims Flick Filosopher
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Wright uses so many split-screen effects that we may as well be peering at the movie through a schizophrenic stereopticon!
psychically broadcasts Movieline
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There’s no room for any real growth, just literalized level-ups that bring our hero incrementally closer to his hipster Princess Toadstool!
rants Time Out New York
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An insular, punishingly alienating experience preaching only to the faithful, devoted hearts of arrested 12-year-old boys!
praises Philadelphia Weekly
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First of all, I’m not a video gamer. I have discovered more appealing ways to not have a life!
boasts the St. Petersberg Times
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Does Wright feel any connection to this milieu? I doubt it!
playfully-extrapolates New York magazine
